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Comment Re:realities? (Score 1) 526

by Naikrovek (#17726590) Attached to: Running Your Electric Meter Backwards
my grandparent's house is so insulated that they can heat the entire house with a candle burning on the dining room table. I kid you not.

in the summer, when its 95+ outside, the AC runs once a day (depending on how many people enter & leave the house) and it is a very comfy 72f almost all day.

Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE? 848

Posted by Cliff from the why-the-zero-sum dept.
bblazer asks: "Beginning this next school year, there is a strong possibility I will be teaching an intro to Java and an intro to Python course at the local community college. I was wondering what the prevailing wisdom is when it comes to teaching languages - should students be taught with or without an IDE? I am a bit old school and wouldn't mind having them all use vi or emacs, but using a good IDE does have some advantages as well. I should note that the students I will be teaching will have had at least 1 semester of programming in VB or C++." Even though there is limited time in a semester, could a curriculum be constructed to accommodate both methods?

Microsoft Releases MechCommander 2 Source Code 115

Posted by Zonk from the free-for-all dept.
SpectreHiro writes "In a shocking move, Microsoft has open sourced... err, 'shared the source' of MechCommander 2. From the site, 'This is the Shared Source release for MechCommander 2. This release contains all of the source code an source assets required to build MechCommander 2. This release can be used with the Microsoft XNA Build March 2006 CTP.'

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